Films Quotes

I always wanted to do films. I'd gone to New York early in 1976 and did a lot of theater, but I really wanted to chase the paths of people like Pacino and Lemmon and those guys. Alan Arkin. Film was where I wanted to go.

I am married to the theater, and the films are only my mistress.

There were a lot of people dreaming about making films, and they would finance maybe 6 films a year. Because they were funded by the government, the films sort-of had to deal with serious social issues - and, as a result, nobody went to see those films.

A lot of feature films do two pages a day.

We've been working with the very best in the business. The studio really just let us alone to make the films.

I find it kind of weird that directors want to put themselves in their films.

I like films that are well-written and concise and with not a lot of room for improvisation.

You would be surprised of films that people just don't see. You know what I mean? I'm always working and I'm a film buff but I'm an old school film buff.

I hope to do films. Right now I'm just doing projects that are interesting.

Whereas European films have traditionally been able to go into adult relationships. I think there's a huge audience in America for those kinds of films.

I like working in theatre now and I think that once you've done a certain amount of films most actors love working in the theatre because of the camaraderie.

I love caper films.

Being an actress is a very physical thing. If I didn't look the way I looked, I would never have started in films.

It's quite a dangerous career move to go wilfully on making films that may not find a distributor.

I make American films for American audiences and Asian films for Asian audiences.

We don't perceive a contradiction between writing books, making films or producing a television program. These days you can't choose how you want to express yourself anymore.

A few words of Hindi appear here or there, but it's all Urdu. I feel that if the popular culture, which is what Hindi films are, uses Urdu, it's not going to diminish.

To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - unlike most films.

I do smaller films, I'm not getting big paydays. I feel like we're just kind of scraping together here.

I'm sure the movie industry is going up but I would love to see more Chinese films about contemporary Chinese about the problems of life on the street.

I hope that Requiem is better than Pi. I hope that Pi is better than my student films, and I'm hoping that I'm getting better as I get older.

My films are the expression of momentary desires. I follow my instincts, but in a disciplined way.

She is also brought to a point of zero in the beginning of the story, and I think you can say that about a lot of my films in that they are often about people who are brought to the point of zero in the beginning of the film.

Films must all have the same structure. All of this to guarantee box office bonanza, which of course it never does, but that's another discussion entirely.

Directing has completely changed the way I write and watch films.

Right now the thing that I have learned the most is to be grateful that I have finally gotten to a point where I am being paid to make films, after eight years.

What switched me to films was the flood of American pictures into Paris after the Liberation.

I sit every once in a while and I think about plays and films I can do with William Petersen into our eighties. He's the most incredible scene partner I've ever had.

The process of making natural history films is to try to prevent the animal knowing you are there, so you get glimpses of a non-human world, and that is a transporting thing.

I've always been a fan of science fiction films, and I've never been able to put my particular spin on it.